erect
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Is erect a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.Examples: "The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation."; "erect nipples"Synonyms: hard, stiff
2. (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.Examples: "OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!"Synonyms: hard, stiff
3. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.Examples: "But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?"obsolete
4. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.Examples: "His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'."obsolete
5. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.Examples: "to erect a house or a fort"transitive
2. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.transitive
3. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.Examples: "As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect."intransitive
4. (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.Examples: "that didst his state above his hopes erect"; ", Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge."transitive
5. (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.Examples: "It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance."transitive
6. (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).Examples: "In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary